Martha Nussbaum's review of Harvey Mansfield's Manliness is the most devastating critique of the philosophical pretensions of a Strauss disciple since...Nussbaum's evisceration of The Closing of the American Mind. (I'm not sure if the review is available to nonsubscribers; generous excerpts are available here.) While...
Author: Scott Lemieux
A few points on Boston Massacre II: The Red Sox made two crucial moves that 1)I heartily supported at the time, and 2)have, in retrospect, turned out to be bad-to-disastrous..
In his review of an interesting-looking new LBJ biography, Alan Brinkley writes:Woods challenges as well a critical element of Caro’s extraordinary portrait of Texas politics in the second volume of.
Shorter various blogospheric wingnuts: the government's appalling lack of racism gives people no recourse but to take racism into their own hands....UDPATE: via Roy, I see that Glenn Reynolds concurs that the racist harassment of the passengers is explained by "excessive political correctness on the...
Admittedly, I can't oppose to making fun of Slappy Rodriguez for hitting into yet another inning-ending double play with Beckett in the ropes. It should not be forgotten, however, that.
It must be said that Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey is--as has been widely noted--a real find, the most hilariously oblivious libertarian crank to emerge in quite some time. (Amber Pawlik,.
Roxanne directs us to this excellent story in the L.A. Times about reporter Gary Webb. Webb , who committed suicide in 2004, wrote a series of stories about the CIA's connections with Nicaraguans who were dealing drugs north of the border. What followed his reporting...
Ah, nothing better than a consequential August doubleheader. Well--something could be better; the Red Sox could be starting a major league pitcher instead of Jason Johnson. I actually had a.
Longtime readers will know that I have my own disagreements with the solipsistic assumption of some members of the legal academy that the quality of the legal craftsmanship of judicial.
...makes another appearance in the august pages of the Wall Street Journal. Most of the truly bad arguments made by the forced pregnancy lobby result from an understandable unwillingness to apply one's purported principles with even a modicum of consistency. The "but would you have...
Via Alex, I see that XFL media has yet another new format. Ever the masochist, I clicked through to the site. In addition to a lot of other highly uninteresting.
U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, to her immense credit, has ruled the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program unconstitutional. Judges can't always be relied on to stop lawless executive.